Edging for skirts.



PATENTED MAR. 3, 1903.

l G. Koss.

EDGING POR SKIRTS.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 26,1902.

F0 MODEL.

M''n essex UNTTn STATES PATENT Tricew GOTTIIARD KOSS, OF BERLIN, GERMANY.

EDGING FOR SKIRTS.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent N 0. 722,115, dated March 3, 1903.'

Application filed June 26,1902. Serial No. 113,329. (No model.)

To @ZZ whom, it may concern.-

Beit known that I, GOTTHARD Koss, a subject of the Emperor of Germany, residing at Siboldstrasse 3, Berlin, Germany, have invented new and useful Improvements in Edging for Skirts and the Like, of which the following is a specification.

For the purpose of enabling edging or facing used on dress-skirts and the like to be more readily applied and to fit more smoothly to the form of the garment it is of great advantage if the edging is of arched form, such as the development of the surface of a truncated cone. This form is imparted to the skirt-edging forming the subject of my invention by crimping, goffering, or otherwise pressing the upper edge or top side of a strip of fabric in such manner as to produce a longitudinal contraction along that side. Short lengths of two forms of such edging are illustrated in the annexed drawings, in which- Figure l is a front view of a piece of plain edging. Fig. la and lb are longitudinal sections on the lines co as and y y, respectively, of Fig. l. Fig. 2 is a vertical section through Fig. l. Fig. 3 is a front view of a piece of edging having ornamentation at the uncontracted side.

The straight strip of fabric intended to form the edging is crimped or drawn together at one edge by any suitable means. The incisions and projections are tapered,so as to be, respectively, deeper or higher at one end than at the other. The pressed portions of the edging, according to their number, form, and degree of pressing, eect a longitudinal contraction of the side to which they are applied, and thereby impart a more or less arched form to the strip of fabric.

In the examples shown in the drawings the crimped or pressed portions a on the upper edge of the strip s are formed with transverse crimpings deeper at the top edge of the fabric than at the bottom, and gradually becoming shallower as they run out level with the rest of the strip.

Various different forms can naturally be given to the pressed portions so as collectively to form a pattern; or the crimpings themselves may be such as to produce a design or pattern in the material.

In pressing the strips of fabric the bottom edge, as shown in Fig. 3,may receive a pressed ornamental border, in some cases in the shape of an additional piece of trimming attached by a suitable adhesive medium, whereby a durable connection may be eifected between such border and the strip. Such applied border can also be further secured by stitching or sewing.

Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I claim is- As a new article of manufacture, an edging for skirts and the like consisting of a straight strip of fabric permanently crimped transversely at one edge so as to contract the length of such edge, said crimpings gradually decreasing in depth from the top edge of the fabric toward but terminating short of the lower edge thereof and gradually vanishing toward and disappearing at their lower ends, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

GOTTHARD KOSS.

Witnesses:

FRITZ SCHNELL, GEORG. KoBsTD. 

